> The other day I read some discussion of x264 developers about optimizing
> code, where it often turned out that when optimizing for size instead of
> speed, the result was that 'the smaller code' was faster because of less
> cache-misses.
>>I am not sure that either binary or source distributions are good that
that. I mean this would have to be on a package by package bases and
one would have to do benchmarks on a variety of systems. I never
optimize for size in gentoo or the code I write for the day job.
John